I can accept (but never love) a sidebar that isn't a site map. Personally, I find them disorienting and they lower my confidence in the quality and authoritativeness of the content. But I understand I am just one person, composed of idiosyncracies.
I actually think that the contents of Community > Contact Us are not contextualized for an incoming contributor. How about "Contribute > Get Help": a page more focused on contributors, clarifying the role of different communication channels and the PMC/Committers roster for getting a change build and incorporated. It could also subsume the off-site FAQ link. Kenn On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:16 AM Scott Wegner <sc...@apache.org> wrote: > In the case of "Contact Us", the redundancy is deliberate-- we received > feedback on the Contribution Guide that the content is heavy and it wasn't > obvious how to find help. We wanted the "Contact Us" link as visible as > possible, so the proposed solution was to have it in both sidebars. > > In my opinion I don't think a strict content hierarchy is necessary in the > sidebar, and we should instead focus on providing the right context. We'll > hit additional cases like this as more content moves out to the wiki. > > Some additional details on the original feedback is in JIRA: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-5735 > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:02 AM Kenneth Knowles <k...@google.com> wrote: > >> And the site map structure actually has a couple more issues: >> >> - Contribute > Roadmap is the same as top-level Roadmap >> - Contribute > Contact Us is the same as Community > Contact Us. >> - Contribute > PMC and Committers is the same as Community > Team >> - Contribute > Policies > * is separate from Community > Policies, for >> good reasons but it looks weird >> >> I don't mean this only as a critique of the change, but also of the prior >> structure, which seemingly didn't work well. >> >> Sam/Thomas/Scott also - was it the case that while working through >> contributing it was unclear where these resources could be found? Is there >> a better division here? I think previously the Contribute and Community >> sections were one and the same, but we split them to put more heavyweight >> stuff under Contribute. >> >> Kenn >> > > > -- > > > > > Got feedback? tinyurl.com/swegner-feedback >
